Well... I said there would be no more demo updates, but this was necessary because the in-game help was a bit broken after all the last changes I made. New features

• Showing number notification when tasks are ready to claim.

Changes

• Reduced default Core Heat.

Bugs fixed

• Fixes and improvements in the help modals.

[ 2025-04-16 15:50:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! Here a new update of Planetary Life demo, and this time yes! This will be the last one unless I have to do some hot fixes related to bugs or balancing. No more new features, no more additions until the game gets released :-) In this new update you will find the following: New features

• Added Observer option. This mode is ideal to leave the game running automatically. Instead of stay in a fixed point because of the inaction of the player, it will move the camera automatically focusing on major events. This option is ideal for long run streaming as well.
• In screen stand-alone message for most recent notification.
• Added individual mutation rate parameter for plants.

Changes

• Now vegetarians will eat plants and reduce the amount them, with a possibility of remove all vegetation in the area.
• Nutritional values of plants affect the hungry levels of creatures.
• Moved a bit away the planets ring to avoid being to close to the global camera.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed bug causing the game to freeze.
• Fixed bug applying wrong texture to creatures sprite animation.
• Fixed bug causing wild fire events to spawn in areas with no vegetation or water.

Also, here a summary of most important changes between version 0.5.0 and this update (ignoring previously mentioned changes, bug fixed and other minor stuff):

• Changed how evolution menu works: now you can do many changes, but each change will have a cost. At the end, the price of all changes will be subtracted from your energy.
• Added undo last change button to creature/plant editor to undo step by step all done changes and also to avoid players getting stuck.
• Improved rain effect.
• Mutated creatures will have a 25% chance to get adapted their temperature to the new location.
• Improved atmosphere, showing a bluer sky and stars at night.
• Now mutation rate artifact can change to decreasing the rate.
• Now reproduction rate artifact can change to decreasing the rate.
• Added artifact to change humidity in the area.
• Added mouth noises to creatures.
• Added proper omnivore, carnivore and vegetarian separated plots for Stats screen.

ENJOY the demo!!! And see you soon when the game gets released in Early Access!

[ 2025-03-25 16:01:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

New features

• Added mouth noises to creatures.
• Added proper omnivore, carnivore and vegetarian separated plots for Stats screen.

Changes

• Creatures balancing.
• Stop keeping the screen on always.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed T-pose bug on creatures.
• Fixed showing details (creatures, plants, trees, etc) in other planet views (altitude, temperature, plate tectonics, etc).
• Fixed traits overflow in the encyclopedia screen.

[ 2025-03-19 22:09:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

New features

• Added artifact to change humidity in the area.

Changes

• Increased power of dust cleaner.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed reproduction rate for carnivores.

[ 2025-03-18 17:58:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Changes

• Improved atmosphere, showing a bluer sky and stars at night.
• Changed how evolution menu works: now you can do many changes, but each change will have a cost. At the end, the price of all changes will be subtracted from your energy.
• Changed reproduction algorithm to avoid overpopulation of the planet.
• Changed filtering by mutation to filtering by low population.
• Now mutation rate artifact can change to decreasing the rate.
• Now reproduction rate artifact can change to decreasing the rate.
• Creatures gets hungry more times during their life (specially fixed for carnivores).
• Balanced some properties for mouths.
• Some performance improvements.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed bug with omnivores not going on hunting if plants were not found.
• Fixed trees pop-in bug.

[ 2025-03-17 22:37:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Changes

• Increased width of tile history menu
• Now mutated creatures will have a 25% chance to get adapted their temperature to the new location

Bugs fixed

• Fixed creatures small floating over the ground when they are out of the water
• Potentially fixed a bug breaking the game
• Fixed temperature discrepancies between screens
• Fixed creatures adding eggs to inhospitable locations
• Fixed floating grass

[ 2025-03-13 22:26:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

New features

• Added undo last change button to creature/plant editor to undo step by step all done changes and also to avoid players getting stuck

Changes

• Improved rain effect
• Slightly increased the survivability of creatures

Bugs fixed

• Fixed some bugs related to rain visualization
• Fixed rain sound issues
• Potentially fixed issue showing two species sprite in the same location
• Potentially fixed "on fire" error when adding plants
• Fixed too high digestion times for carnivores

[ 2025-03-12 13:13:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Changes

• ESC can close encyclopedia now
• ESC will cancel/close any menu or selected tool
• Switching categories will cancel current selected tool

Bugs fixed

• Fixed showing rain under the water
• Renamed Evolve to to Evolved to
• Fixed issue with mutation filter getting hidden when no no-mutations exists
• Fixed visual bug drawing a rare line in the grounds texture

[ 2025-03-12 00:35:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is the last demo before the game gets released in Early Access! I will only do updates on this demo to fix big issues. This means... the release of the game is coming! However, the release date is still undefined, but we can start saying is coming soon! New features

• Added current creatures and plants catalog menu.
• Added creatures and plants evolution tree screens.
• Added corpses on dead creatures locations.
• Added new creature view menu to show more details.
• Added new plant view menu to show more details.
• Added new lifeform creation menu, to get adapted to the new Cell Stage (not available in this demo).
• Added random names to creature species.
• Added new animations to creatures.
• Added manual bars to Planet Config menu to change core heat, albedos, etc by just moving a slider.
• Added mutation rate bar to Planet Config menu.
• Added snow ambient for walking camera.
• Added raining particles.
• Showing planet time.

Changes

• Improved creature models and texturing system, showing more details and colors now.
• Improved the way the creature related notifications are showed, specially in walking camera (damage points, reproduction hearth, etc).
• Improved fire implementation and visuals.
• Limit skin types based on the chosen skeleton.
• Improved mutation algorithm and creatures behavior to increase the ecosystem diversity.
• Brighter clouds and less dense atmosphere when walking the planet, improving visibility.
• Improved performance when changing camera zoom.
• Improved game performance when moving camera with a lot of creatures in screen.
• Improved game performance when using the walking camera.
• Improved underwater visuals.
• Decreased the size of the creatures in the bigger sizes, because from specific sizes they were too problematic.
• With medium or higher air humidity, dust go down to land faster.
• Improved help copy in some points.
• Some other visual improvements.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed all elevation issues related to creatures of different sizes, flying, etc during the walking camera.
• Fixed pop-up issues in walking camera.
• Fixed water rendering issues, specially when walking under water.
• Remove lava and fire from global planet temperature calculations.
• Fixed bug showing data layers with wrong size.
• Fixed lifebar visualization issues in walking camera.

[ 2025-03-10 15:06:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2025-02-27 21:36:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! It's been a while since the last update! Over the past few months, I have been working on something totally new and unexpected. This was out of the original scope of the game, but it was requested from some people and decided to add it. It was more challenging than expected, specially in terms of gameplay. I could have taken the usual approach of player controlling one cell in an arcade-style game. moving around the scenario, feeding, evading larger cells and eventually evolving into something bigger. However, this didn't match with the original philosophy of the game, where you have full control of a planet and its ecosystem, therefore you are not just controlling one creature or specie, but everything! So, this cell stage was designed as a kind of Petri dish, where you will find a variety of cells moving, reproducing and evolving. As a player, you can influence them and and guide their evolution manually. At some point, basic cells will evolve into multicellular life forms, and later, when those are enough evolved, you will be able to evolve one more time and create a macroscopic life form ending this stage. The outcome could be a creature, a plant or a fungi with different properties based on the evolved multicellular properties. Optionally, you can ignore this part and just create some basic life forms in the planet using a template. Although, these templates won't cover all the possibilities. For now, this part won't be included in the current demo, but I hope everyone enjoys this new feature when the game is released.

[ 2025-01-29 12:23:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2024-09-05 09:20:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

Changes

• Now fur skin slows down speed in water.
• Moved the light direction a bit in close zoom.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed bug causing water not to render some polygons.
• Fixed flash showing of plants inside the star.
• Fixed wrong pricing when creating lifeforms.
• Fixed showing game menu in walking mode.
• Fixed minimap camera position calculations in poles.

[ 2024-08-01 10:21:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

I know it's been a while, I'm sorry! But it's for a good reason... a new rendering system! What that means? Well... I added a new camera to the game that allow players to walk and explore planet's surface! Because of this, I needed to rebuild the whole rendering system of the game, and also redo many of the assets, because initially were designed for a top-down view but now you can watch them from any angle.
Also, I fully implement the vegetation system including allowing the players to evolve them and generate procedural plants and trees.
Along with this demo, there are many other changes and improvements, but I will summary them in the following release note. I hope you enjoy this new version of the demo! I promise that the next version will be released sooner! New features

• New zoom adding walking level camera.
• New global minimap.
• New procedural plants.
• Added soil moisture.
• Added skeletons to creatures.
• Added multiple sizes to creatures.
• Added tile history menu. This will keep a log of what happened in the tile in the past.

Changes

• Fully changed planet mesh rendering.
• Removed evolution energy resource. Now everything works with cosmic energy.
• New diet system for creatures based on preferences.
• Added microorganism diet.
• Now, in evolution menu, when evolving a component the reverts are shown in the same menu.
• Improved objects positioning in terrain surface.
• Improved air humidity system.
• Improved creatures leg movement.
• Improved messages and hit points visualization.
• New fighting animation for creatures.
• Reduced ring rotation and added shadow projection.
• Improved notifications menu.
• The creature evolve notification will show only once when the first evolution happens.
• An alert has been added to notify the time is paused.
• Now natural volcanoes will appear in fixed positions along continental plates boundaries.
• New skill tree based on gameplay progression.
• Simplified planet colors avoiding non-natural colors.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed showing white square instead of proper sprite on creatures.
• Fixed bug allowing to change camerazoom when evolution menus were open.
• Fixed fertile terrain requirements.
• Fixed time non resuming after some situations that were pausing it.
• Fixed bug allow to zoom to early during camera tutorial.
• Fixed blurry skill tree screen.

[ 2024-07-31 15:15:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

New features

• Manual de-evolution of creature components.
• Allow to edit and remove existing creature components.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed bug with audio volume controls.
• Fixed viviparous reproduction.

[ 2024-02-12 23:24:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

New features

• Improved error messages, specially those about why plants cannot be created.
• Added delete all notifications button.

Changes

• Increased the effect area and amount for get and drop terrain and water tools.
• Showing error alert when creatures energy limited is surpassed.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed bug allowing to add unlimited components to creatures.

[ 2024-02-09 16:59:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Join us to discover Planetary Life! Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilisations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn! Watch our stream featuring gameplay of Planetary Life, and make sure to try out our first public demo! [previewyoutube=UbC1QodKscI;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2024-02-09 09:03:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

Join us to discover Planetary Life! Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilisations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn! Watch our stream featuring gameplay of Planetary Life, and make sure to try out our first public demo! [previewyoutube=OwwaVoyPvYA;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2024-02-09 09:00:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

New features

• Added independent music and sound volume sliders.
• Added short descriptive names to tiles.
• Translation to Spanish added.

Changes

• Different style for Artifact related buttons.
• Improved Tool/Artifact tooltips.
• Change Artifact menu into a floating menu in the world.
• Rebalanced tools and artifacts prices.
• Rebalanced some task conditions and fixed copy.
• Changed style of the checkbox to skip tutorial.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed bug that was causing not to reset game variables when starting a new game.

[ 2024-02-05 16:13:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

The demo of Planetary Life is out now! You can already experience a small portion of the game and we're excited for you to try it out. It's important to know that this demo is from an early access game, so it stills requires polishing, bug fixing, game balancing and adding more features. We're committed to making improvements, and your feedback is incredibly important to us! Any bugs, aspects you dislike, or if you simply wish to share your enthusiasm about the game, feel free to do so in the discussion area or in our official Discord. [color=red]Disclaimer![/color] Please be aware that in addition to encountering bugs, this demo does not feature all the components planned for the final game. Not included features: - Simulation and evolution of plants (includes highly simplified version of the plants). - Several types of food that depended on plants: pollen, flowers and fruits. - The gases of the planet, although present, have no effect on the creatures for the moment. - This demo contains 58 different components to evolve creatures only. The final game will have much more. - The cell stage is not available in this demo. - The civilization stage is not available in this demo. - In this demo is [color=orange]not possible to Save/Load[/color] the game. I hope you enjoy this demo and we await your valuable feedback and your wishlist on Steam! Thank you for playing!

[ 2024-02-02 10:44:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Have you ever wished to wield the power to shape the very fabric of your planet? Well, look no further! Enter the realm of artifactsextraordinary items that, once strategically placed, can unleash a myriad of effects, transforming your surroundings either locally or globally. Imagine a world where you have the ability to combine and stack these artifacts, creating a symphony of powerful effects that can elevate your planetary experience to new heights. Today, we're diving into the fascinating universe of planetary artifacts, starting with the most fundamental one.

Get planet energy

Category: Earth The purpose of this Artifact is to serve as a planetary resource extractor, gathering energy to power a variety of tools and artifacts within our arsenal. [previewyoutube=1ASxPqT51hg;full][/previewyoutube]

Change surface albedo

Category: Earth This artifact has the capability to adjust the global surface albedo of the planet, either increasing or decreasing temperatures to make the climate hotter or cooler. [previewyoutube=oO41bbPXkwU;full][/previewyoutube]

Change core heat

Category: Fire Adjusting the global core heat of the planet, whether increasing or decreasing, directly impacts the activity of volcanoes. [previewyoutube=4oTHfP7h7S8;full][/previewyoutube]

Change cloud albedo

Category: Air Much like the surface albedo, this artifact has the capacity to influence global planet temperatures, either making them hotter or cooler. [previewyoutube=qfnLusfFbGw;full][/previewyoutube]

Change temperature

Category: Air Employing this artifact alters the temperature of the designated area. Enhance the impact by stacking multiple identical artifacts in the same region to amplify the effect. [previewyoutube=6vYY1BzV8nQ;full][/previewyoutube]

Change wind direction

Category: Air Manipulate wind direction to shift clouds and moisture to various locations as you see fit. [previewyoutube=xf2OGdNkoxM;full][/previewyoutube]

Increase reproduction rate

Category: Life This will enhance the reproduction rate within the designated area. [previewyoutube=_p4p1IITlho;full][/previewyoutube]

Increase mutation rate

Category: Life This will elevate the mutation rate in the region, accelerating the evolutionary process for the creatures inhabiting it. [previewyoutube=PvmgYPRlBmo;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2023-12-09 00:47:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2023-11-15 11:36:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2023-08-24 08:53:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2023-08-09 23:49:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2023-08-08 10:48:20 CET ] [ Original post ]